"We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom."
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"If a person who lives in God becomes miserable, what is the use of living in God? What is the use of such a God? Throw such a God overboard into the Pacific Ocean. We do not want such a God!"
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"Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody."
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"All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves."
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"We say that if a temple, or a symbol, or an image helps you to realize the Divine within, you are welcome to it. Have two hundred images if you like. If certain forms and formulas help you to realize the Divine, God speed you; have, by all means, whatever forms, temples, whatever ceremonies you want to bring you nearer to God. But do not quarrel about them; the moment you quarrel, you are not going Godward, you are going backward towards the brutes."
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"We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran."
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"We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is everywhere, saying, "I am." The moment you feel "I am," you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?"
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"It is the want that creates the body."
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"If you want to live, go back to Christ. You are not Christians. Go back to Christ. Go back to him who had nowhere to lay his head. Better be ready to live in rags with Christ than to live in palaces without him."
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"I just want to say that, all you do, no matter how bad your diet is, for the first six months or year, I just reduce the amount, even if it's horrible stuff. That you can deal with it."
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"All young men want to prove themselves."
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"I'm not just painting for painting's sake. I want to be truthful."
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"Often people going into directing want to learn as much as they possibly can about "technique." And I say the hell with that."
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"Sometimes when I don't want to cry, I cry. And when I want to I can't. It's subconscious. Like sexual performance."
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"I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life."
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"I didn't want much. I wanted much more. In fact, I wanted everything."
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"I don't want to own her, but I can't let her have it both ways. There is one too many of us."
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"It's hard to know more about a person's life than what that person wants you to know."
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"You don't want to be starting a film not knowing what you want to do."
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"The radicals...want speech regulated by codes that proscribe certain language. They see free speech as at best a delusion, at worst a threat to the welfare of minorities and women....The most obvious (and cynical) explanation for the switched positions is the switched situations. Protesting students became established professors and administrators. For outsiders, free speech is bread and butter; for insiders, indigestion. To the new academics, unregulated free speech spells trouble."
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